(Nov. 1) -- Last minute preparations are underway for Tuesday's election including preparing for many firsts -- such as provisional ballots. Voters who would have been turned away from the polls in previous elections will be able to vote this year casting provisional ballots.
You will cast a provisional ballot
- If you are a first-time voter, but don't have an ID as required.
- If your name doesn't show up on the elections department list of registered voters.
- If you're at the wrong polling place.
Provisional ballots are only for federal races. But Secretary of State Dean Heller says he wanted Nevadans to be able vote for all the races. It's something the Nevada Legislature didn't agree with.
Secretary of State Heller says, "When we wrote the law, we included all the races the assembly took it out."
There is speculation that many polling places will also have challengers Tuesday, people who will question someone's right to vote.
Registrar of Voters, Larry Lomax, said, "What we aren't allowing is someone who is challenging voters with the purpose of interfering and challenging every third voter. If we determine that's what's going on we'll put a stop to it."
"You have to be a member of the precinct, you have to know the individual. I want these disputes taken into the next room or outside so the lines can continue to move," Heller said.
Lomax says the only law he's aware of is the one where the challenger must live in the precinct.
There may be a few bumps in the road if someone challenges a voter's U.S. citizenship and that voter doesn't have proof. The election department says it will rely on a ruling from the Clark County's counsel on how to handle it.
Election officials say if there are challenges Tuesday they expect them to be over residency issues.
